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The DWP is developing proposals to allow social landlords that use the landlord portal to submit bulk uploads rent changes for their tenants who are claimants of Universal Credit.

Revealing its proposals at Thursday's meeting of the Strategic Landlord Group, the DWP intends to have arrangements in place ready for April 2019. The approach contrasts from the one previously taken, where the DWP insisted that it was the responsibility of individual claimants to notify them via their online journal of rent changes only once they came into effect. This would prompt a rent verification request to landlords, which, as Universal Credit goes to scale, would present a considerable administrative burden.